“Annabel Lee,” by Edgar Allan Poe is a poem written just months before the poets mysterious death. “Annabel Lee,” is about a girl and her love, who are both children, that love each other so greatly that it cannot be demolished. They’re loved was so brightly burning that the “…winged seraphs of Heaven…” coveted them. The narrator says that that was the reasoning behind a wind that made his love, Annabel Lee, ill. She was taken away to a kingdom by the sea and locked away from him, but when she died the narrator knew that their love was so great that could survive anything, even death. The narrator ends his poem by saying how he sees his Annabel Lee in everything, from the stars to the moon, he cannot see anything but her beauty; so he finally lays to rest at the side of her tomb in the kingdom by the sea. This poem uses many things to create a capturing tale, connotation, tone and even shifts create this raveling poem.
Edgar Allan Poe uses simple language, imagery, comparison and even repetition to draw the reader into his story in depth. Imagery is a huge factor in Poe’s writing of Annabel Lee; he describes his love for
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“...A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling/My beautiful Annabel Lee...” This statement is an example of the gothic tone that Poe uses to create his story. Repeatedly Poe says, “...in this kingdom by the sea...” while he doesn’t specifically describe the scenery of the poem, this is his largest piece of description to the location and dark atmosphere of his Poem. Ultimately he uses his statement “...her sepulchre there by the sea...” to conclude the death of the narrator’s love, their childly love that started greater than anything and ended as a tragic romance, ruined by death. Although angels took her away, Poe leaves the narrator by her tomb in the kingdom by the sea, which brings everything to the shift within the